prescription-price-research

Compare public GoodRx pharmacy price snapshots using Crawlora drug and option discovery. Use to compare posted prices for a specified medication, form, strength, quantity, and US location; excludes diagnosis, dosing advice, medication changes, and purchases.

Access and contract

Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY to your Crawlora key. Prefer the named Crawlora MCP tools when connected; otherwise use the bundled scripts/crawlora.sh, which sends x-api-key to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Read reference/endpoints.md for exact tool names, methods, and parameters. Check application code as well as HTTP status; payloads are inside data. Stop on authentication errors, back off on 429, and retry a transient upstream failure once. Bound pages and calls by the requested scope and credit budget. Preserve source URLs, identifiers, and collection times.

Compare posted pharmacy prices for the user's specified medication and package. A price comparison does not select a medication, dose, or clinical substitute.

Resolve the exact priced product

1. Use the drug directory's initial-letter route to resolve the returned drug slug, or a slug already supplied by a verified GoodRx source. Read goodrx_drug_options before selecting label (brand/generic), form, dosage, and quantity. Valid option values form combinations; do not build an arbitrary cross-product or equate similarly named formulations.
2. Keep the medication/strength/form fixed unless the user explicitly wants a comparison of specified options. Directory class/condition/comparison routes can provide attributed publisher context; they do not establish therapeutic equivalence or authorise substituting a different medicine.
3. Query prices with the resolved choices and explicit US location. Coordinate queries require latitude and longitude together; retain state/ZIP evidence rather than inventing coordinates from an approximate city. Missing choices can select source defaults, so inspect and report the resolved product before treating two quoted prices as comparable.
4. Record quantity, units, brand/generic label, strength, form, location, pharmacy, coupon or other eligibility conditions, source URL, and timestamp. Use people versus pets only when the selected source actually supports that audience; human and veterinary guidance are not interchangeable.

sh

scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/drugs letter=a
# Select the requested drug slug, then discover its exact options:
# scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/drug-options slug="$DRUG_SLUG"
# scripts/crawlora.sh /goodrx/drug-prices slug="$DRUG_SLUG" form="$FORM" dosage="$DOSAGE" quantity="$QUANTITY" zip_code="$ZIP"

Compare costs and limitations

Keep cash/list prices, discounted coupon prices, membership prices, and insurance copays separate; do not assume a coupon combines with insurance. Calculate unit cost only for the same unit and formulation, and show the package total alongside it. A snapshot is not guaranteed pharmacy stock, a final checkout price, or an insurer's benefit determination. Missing prices remain unknown; do not substitute zero or assume a drug is unavailable. Return a comparable pharmacy-price table, resolved-option ledger, source/time, and eligibility questions to confirm. GoodRx health articles and comparisons remain attributed educational content. Questions about changing medicines, doses, or clinical suitability require a qualified clinician/pharmacist; price alone cannot settle them. Do not redeem a coupon, buy medication, or transmit medical/prescription data from this research.